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  "title": "Miscellanea for 2025-09-17",
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  "date": "2025-09-18T06:59:00.000Z",
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  "html": "<ul>\n<li>Hello world!</li>\n<li>I set up this lovely rapid-fire blogging machine, then I got really busy and stopped rapid-fire blogging (ugh!)<ul>\n<li>Maybe I should take another swing at <a href=\"https://blog.lmorchard.com/tag/weeknotes/\">weeknotes</a>?</li>\n<li>If every day is a loosey-goosey opportunity to blog, then no day is a particular day to blog.</li>\n<li>I lose touch with folks in the world when I get busy and go heads down for long periods. I'd still like to have <em>some</em> channel of communication open.</li>\n<li>I still think that \"<a href=\"https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/search-query\">A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox</a>\" and I keep wanting to revive the habit.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li>I've done a few interesting things lately:<ul>\n<li>Mostly shelved my work on <a href=\"https://github.com/lmorchard/pebbling-club\">Pebbling Club</a>, since I realized I'm kind of reinventing a lot of wheels better made by others.</li>\n<li>I <a href=\"https://links.lmorchard.com/bookmarks/shared\">switched over</a> to using <a href=\"https://linkding.link/\">Linkding</a> as a web link collector—this is one of those aforementioned pre-invented wheels.</li>\n<li>Built &amp; released <a href=\"https://github.com/lmorchard/feedspool-go\">feedspool-go</a>, which takes OPML lists and produces a static site of RSS items. This has become my new feed reader.</li>\n<li>Built &amp; released <a href=\"https://github.com/lmorchard/linkding-to-opml\">linkding-to-opml</a>, which allows me to use Linkding bookmarks as my OPML list of feed subscriptions for feedspool.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li>I did a lot of the above via throwing specifications at Claude and refining them into code and GitHub Actions workflows.<ul>\n<li>Really quite productive for side-projects.</li>\n<li>And work projects, too, but those aren't as open-to-the-public these days.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li>Next, I'm thinking about what further small composable glue tools I can gin up to essentially build what I wanted with Pebbling Club.<ul>\n<li>Maybe something to turn a day or week of Linkding bookmarks into markdown as the starting point for a blog post?</li>\n<li>Maybe something to turn a day or week of Mastodon toots into markdown, also as the starting point for a blog post?</li>\n<li>Also eyeing up all the notes and highlights I accumulate from my Kindle - those could make a good blog post too, since I've been ripping through books as I pedal away on the exercise bike every morning.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li>Way in the back of my mind, I still have an impulse to see if I can stitch all the above together into some kind of \"<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebbling\">pebbling</a>\" (i.e. collecting and sharing) club for folks.<ul>\n<li>But, I want to get it all to work happily for myself, first.</li>\n<li>Maybe there's no particular demand for this thing?</li>\n<li>I have a vague notion that there is a space for something that helps folks authentically stitch together a human-scale small web?</li>\n<li>I have scarce energy and motivation for building this, though.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n",
  "body": "\n- Hello world!\n- I set up this lovely rapid-fire blogging machine, then I got really busy and stopped rapid-fire blogging (ugh!)\n\t- Maybe I should take another swing at [weeknotes](https://blog.lmorchard.com/tag/weeknotes/)?\n\t- If every day is a loosey-goosey opportunity to blog, then no day is a particular day to blog.\n\t- I lose touch with folks in the world when I get busy and go heads down for long periods. I'd still like to have *some* channel of communication open.\n\t- I still think that \"[A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox](https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/search-query)\" and I keep wanting to revive the habit.\n- I've done a few interesting things lately:\n\t- Mostly shelved my work on [Pebbling Club](https://github.com/lmorchard/pebbling-club), since I realized I'm kind of reinventing a lot of wheels better made by others.\n\t- I [switched over](https://links.lmorchard.com/bookmarks/shared) to using [Linkding](https://linkding.link/) as a web link collector—this is one of those aforementioned pre-invented wheels.\n\t- Built & released [feedspool-go](https://github.com/lmorchard/feedspool-go), which takes OPML lists and produces a static site of RSS items. This has become my new feed reader.\n\t- Built & released [linkding-to-opml](https://github.com/lmorchard/linkding-to-opml), which allows me to use Linkding bookmarks as my OPML list of feed subscriptions for feedspool.\n- I did a lot of the above via throwing specifications at Claude and refining them into code and GitHub Actions workflows.\n\t- Really quite productive for side-projects.\n\t- And work projects, too, but those aren't as open-to-the-public these days.\n- Next, I'm thinking about what further small composable glue tools I can gin up to essentially build what I wanted with Pebbling Club.\n\t- Maybe something to turn a day or week of Linkding bookmarks into markdown as the starting point for a blog post?\n\t- Maybe something to turn a day or week of Mastodon toots into markdown, also as the starting point for a blog post?\n\t- Also eyeing up all the notes and highlights I accumulate from my Kindle - those could make a good blog post too, since I've been ripping through books as I pedal away on the exercise bike every morning.\n- Way in the back of my mind, I still have an impulse to see if I can stitch all the above together into some kind of \"[pebbling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebbling)\" (i.e. collecting and sharing) club for folks.\n\t- But, I want to get it all to work happily for myself, first.\n\t- Maybe there's no particular demand for this thing?\n\t- I have a vague notion that there is a space for something that helps folks authentically stitch together a human-scale small web?\n\t- I have scarce energy and motivation for building this, though.",
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